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...daily newspaper in Cambridge, Mass., and the oldest continuously published daily college newspaper. It chooses its leaders through an election process known as the “turkey shoot,” in which all outgoing editors are invited to participate. A successful candidate must receive at least 75 percent of the vote. The other newly-elected leaders include: Laurence H. M. Holland ’09 and Samuel P. Jacobs ’09, associate managing editors Patrick R. Chesnut ’09 and Jake G. Cohen ’09, arts chairs Aditi Banga...
...fire like the Cuyahoga, a river so polluted from America’s rise to industrial power that it actually sustained flames. China is also more proactive about the environmental impact of growth. The Communist Party has required that the same economic growth be achieved in 2010 using 20 percent less energy than in 2005. For the same time period, the government has also mandated that mercury, sulfur dioxide, and other pollutant emissions decline by 10 percent in total. None of this is a guarantee that China’s next generation will see more blue skies, but it certainly...
...film means to present abortion as an issue that “affects all women,” and it hopes to slash the stigma associated with what is the most common elective surgery in the United States.An estimated 1.3 million American women terminate pregnancies each year; roughly 43 percent of American women have had abortions before age 45. Yet although abortion is legal, the filmmakers believe it is “still so stigmatized that it’s never discussed in polite company.” “Speak Out: I Had an Abortion” aims...
...easy to extrapolate from one of his most basic geometrical rules: no physical object can be one-dimensional.And so go the hopes of the Bulldogs, a team that enters The Game riding the legs of Mike McLeod and, well, nobody else. The junior running back has accounted for over 43 percent of Yale’s offense in 2007, and he’s the primary reason why the Bulldogs enter The Game looking to complete their first undefeated season since 1967.But he’ll be met by a Crimson squad that ranks first in the Ivy League in rush...
...Modeling their platform after the famous “Contract with America,” the Republicans wrote a “Covenant with Manchester Taxpayers.” Mandatory referendums on town budgets requiring over 3 percent tax increases; “performance-based accounting”—whereby town departments report progress with statistics rather than subjective reports; and a new town ordinance to combat blight were among the Republicans’ promises...